AI Investor Forum: Gus Tai on AI in Education (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: This is interesting. It’s a little bit of a diversion, but I recently had an experience with a very close friend of mine who very readily condemned Joe Biden for pardoning his son. I don’t feel so strongly about that pardon because this is a father who has lost two children and a

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AI Investor Forum: Gus Tai on AI in Education (Part 1)

Gus Tai, Investor, Board Member and Retired General Partner at Trinity Ventures, discusses ideas and opportunities in Education with an AI-augmented framework.

665th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with Investor Gus Tai (Part 2, 2024)

Gus Tai, Investor, Board Member and Retired General Partner at Trinity Ventures, discusses ideas and opportunities in Education with an AI-augmented framework.

The Startup Velocity Question: The Churn Issue

The market is full of companies facing velocity issues due to high churn. Somehow or the other, they may have managed to sell subscriptions to enterprises, SMBs or individuals.

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Student Developers Bootstrapping with a Paycheck, Then Growing to a Million Users: Ben Spring, CEO of TryHackMe (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Can you talk to me about the competition? There is a whole bunch of players in the EdTech space who also cater to the same customers that you are interested in. Pluralsight is a very good example. Who else do you consider as a competitor? Ben Spring: There are a couple of labs

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Student Developers Bootstrapping with a Paycheck, Then Growing to a Million Users: Ben Spring, CEO of TryHackMe (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: How many enterprise customers do you have right now? Ben Spring: Well over a hundred. We’ve been super fortunate to onboard Fortune 500 companies, lots of governments, lots of schools, and colleges. We’ve done some really rewarding work with the education of Scotland to provide training to 14 and 15-year-olds to break into

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Student Developers Bootstrapping with a Paycheck, Then Growing to a Million Users: Ben Spring, CEO of TryHackMe (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What was happening with the business? Were the conversation rates increasing? Was the number of users increasing and how? Ben Spring: It was completely organic. We were incredibly lucky. It was just word-of-mouth. We really tried to make a great user experience and understand the user’s problem. At the time, I was constantly

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